Stefanie Chernyakov has been with Altum for more than years and has developed deep expertise in the peer review process. Read on to get Stefanie’s best practices for running a great peer review, so that you can identify the right applications that have the strongest potential to contribute to science and accelerate outcomes.

Over the last two years, the number of publication records associated with researcher profiles in ProposalCentral has grown from 100,000 to over 1.2 million. The continued adoption of ORCID by researchers and funders is the primary driver fueling this remarkable growth.

A running list of ProposalCentral announcements can be found here.

Our newest team member, Mike Pelaia is an avid Pittsburgh Steeler fan who also created his own foundation in 2010 to give back to Childrens Hospital Pittsburgh. Read more about his inspiring story and what motivates him.

Use the Pin It feature from the Committee Application Roster to better manage the application discussion in a review meeting.

As ORCID approaches the fifth anniversary of its Trust Program, the team has published a series of blog posts that outline ORCID’s thinking around how to balance the sometimes-competing priorities of researcher control and data quality, while adhering to its values of openness, trust and inclusivity.

Easily import publications resulting from grants to visualize outputs and impact of grants.

On Tuesday, May 9th Altum will release a preview version of new ProposalCentral login screens. The new login experience will be accessible from proposalcentral.com and available for anyone to check out at their convenience.

Want to be able to show grant impact? Make sure you’re getting publication outputs from your awardees as data, not attached files.   

The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) became the first funder on ProposalCentral to successfully register all its active awards.

Include ORCID authorization in your post-award deliverables to ensure your awardees have provided the full trust-level needed to update their ORCID records with your awards and to pull in future career data when the grant is over.

A simple deliverable for invention reporting can be scheduled for awards. Just create the deliverable and turn on the invention data form.

Altum Insights is a deep text search and visualization tool that lets grant makers and institutions see the connections and impact of program funding across the entire research lifecycle. Altum Analytics is a data reporting platform that enables grants makers to explore their ProposalCentral funding data and make data-driven decisions.

Company to Award $25,000 in Scholarship Opportunities to Local Underserved Youth and Future Leaders.

Push your ProposalCentral award data to your researchers’ ORCID records to help researchers, institutions, and publishers see the funding data you are providing.

Prestigious international funding organization adopts cloud solution to simplify and accelerate grant making globally

Register your grant DOIs to connect your grants and grantees with published outputs & measure the reach and return of your funding.

The death rate from cancer in the U.S. dropped 2.4% from 2017 to 2018, the biggest single-year decline on record and a sign of the impact of new treatments on lung cancer especially, the American Cancer Society said.

A look into Altum's major accomplishments in 2020.

Congress passed a federal funding bill that included $80 million specially set aside for childhood cancer research programs.

Through a series of rapid TED-style talks, this virtual event will explore the challenges, trends, and best practices that are shaping the research ecosystem in 2021.

Altum has been named a 2020 NVTC Honoree. The annual awards celebrate the most innovative technology companies and top tech executives in the region.

The Health Research Alliance (HRA) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) have launched the Reimagine Biomedical Research for a Healthier Future Essay Challenge. The competition is hosted on ProposalCentral.

At Altum, we believe that research is most effective when it’s powered by a community. We share an ambitious vision and an open mindset, and our organization and platform are designed to foster true collaboration and partnerships. 

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement, unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and their world.  

Altum has joined Crossref as a sponsoring partner, enabling funding organizations to connect their grants and grantees with published outputs and easily measure the reach and return of their grant making efforts.

Proposal Central helps you see what’s out there, understand your impact and empower your efforts, wherever they happen to be. In short, we help you fund better. 

The Lupus Research Alliance has announced the 2020 Lupus Innovation Award recipients. These seven recipients are tackling projects that represent a wide breadth of scientific exploration of the disease.

To intelligently scale its grant-making efforts, The ALS Association selected Altum’s ProposalCentral for its ease-of-use and comprehensive capabilities. 

The ORCID connection inside ProposalCentral enables funders to gain visibility into research outcomes and to provide clear reporting to donors and boards. The goal is perfect transparency into funding impact and to empower grant makers to answer a common question, “What did researchers accomplish after our grant?”

On November 6, the Food and Drug Administration is convening a meeting of outside experts to review the data from two Phase 3 clinical trials of a new drug developed for treating cognitive and functional decline in early Alzheimer’s disease

Implementing an online, digital grants management solution was the logical next step to improve the grants process and the overall experience for applicants and reviewers. 

Altum’s flagship grants management platform helps organizations unlock the full potential of their funding efforts and deliver outcomes that benefit humanity faster.

Altum, Inc., a leading SaaS platform for research grants management, today announced that Kevin Fliess has joined the company as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

The Lupus Research Alliance, a Proposal Central customer, recently published findings that support further development by several companies of potential new lupus treatments.

Altum is looking forward to the new partnership with National Information Standards Organization (NISO).

An exciting and promising breakthrough for the treatment of ALS is now in clinical trials. The ALS Foundation and I AM ALS have petitioned the FDA to make the treatment available as soon as possible.

Altum unveiled a new and important initiative for the research community called Open.  Open is a mindset and a belief that to truly create change, we must break down the walls and silos that have hindered innovation for centuries. Altum’s research management platform, ProposalCentral, and the power of the research analytics contained therein, is a true game changer for research organizations.

This is it! For months, you’ve contributed your time and energy, donated, raised money and maybe even shaved your head. And today that all culminates in the largest set of grants St. Baldrick’s makes all year.

We are at a pivotal point in world history and now is the time to act. Altum is incensed and heartbroken at the repeated killings of people of color and other minority groups due to systemic racism. Altum condemns the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Elijah McClain, and the countless others who have died, and continue to die, because of racism and police brutality. We fully support the Black Lives Matter movement.